Asknish

Asknish is a settlement near the village of Lochgair in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
The hamlet is made up of a large detached house and farm buildings with a lodge and two other dwellings nearby on the A83 road. Asknish House was built in the late 18th century and was named "Lochgair" or "Lochgair Mansion House" until the late 19th century. It has been a Category B listed building since 1971.
Asknish House is built on or near the site of a castle owned by the Campbells of Auchinbreck, who sold the estate in 1768 to Robert Campbell of Asknish.
The house was inherited by Duncan Paterson, and later by Aylmer Vivian. Both the Patersons and Vivians adopted the surname MacIver Campbell on inheriting the estate. In 1897 Colonel Aylmer MacIver Campbell sold the old MacIver Asknish estate near Kilmelford, requiring its new owner James Arthur Campbell to rename it, and renamed the Lochgair mansion house Asknish.